tests: Adds mock patch autospec fixture #90
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When mocking something, there's the possibility to reference a property that does not exist, or call a method with invalid arguments, but the unit tests to keep passing, resulting in false positives. We've seen this issue several times in OpenStack, and we have created and started using a mock patch fixture (can be seen in OpenStack Nova's test.py) which enables autospec by default. This guarantees 2 things: that the thing we're patching exists, and if it's callable, that the calls respect the callable's signature (e.g.: no unknown arguments can be used).
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When mocking something, there's the possibility to reference a property that does not exist, or call a method with invalid arguments, but the unit tests to keep passing, resulting in false positives.
We've seen this issue several times in OpenStack, and we have created and started using a mock patch fixture (can be seen in OpenStack Nova's
test.py) which enables autospec by default.This guarantees 2 things: that the thing we're patching exists, and if it's callable, that the calls respect the callable's signature (e.g.: no unknown arguments can be used).